Douglas R. Johnson

Douglas Ralph Johnson (1824-1873) was the leader of a posse from Tucumcari, New Mexico during the 1870s. In 1873, he captured the outlaw Blake Wood after he was knocked unconscious by Lyle Hughes during a failed bank robbery, and he held a trial of his peers which convicted him of attempted bank robbery and sentenced him to death. Before the posse could hang him from a tree in rural Hanman County, they were ambushed and massacred by a Comanche war party.